When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Murderer Eugène-Marie Chantrelle is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Calton Prison, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Chantrelle poisoned his 26-year-old wife Elizabeth Dyer by inserting opium into her food.

(-)93 years ago

Wednesday 31st of May 1922

Solicitor and murderer Herbert Rowse Armstrong is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in Gloucester Prison, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

(-)87 years ago

Thursday 31st of May 1928

Cop killer Frederick Guy Browne is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

While waiting for sentence to be carried out Browne tried to commit suicide three times, once by hanging himself and then by cutting his throat. He even tried to go on a hunger strike and had to be force fed.

(-)87 years ago

Thursday 31st of May 1928

Cop killer William Henry Kennedy is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

(+)85 years ago

Saturday 31st of May 1930

Actor and film director Clint Clinton Eastwood is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

(+)70 years ago

Thursday 31st of May 1945

Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder is born in Bad Wörishofen, Bayern, Germany.

(-)62 years ago

Sunday 31st of May 1953

Artist Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin dies of unknown causes at the age of 68 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

(-)55 years ago

Tuesday 31st of May 1960

Writer Willem Elsschot, originally Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder dies of skin cancer at the age of 78 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

(-)53 years ago

Thursday 31st of May 1962

SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Ayalon Prison, Ramla, Center District, Israel.

(+)50 years ago

Monday 31st of May 1965

Actress and child star Brooke Christa Shields is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

(x)50 years ago

Monday 31st of May 1965

37-year-old Clarence 13X, originally Clarence Edward Smith aka The Father is arrested and charged with assault and battery, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, marijuana possession, resisting arrest, and unlawful assembly in New York City, New York, United States.

12-year-old Child killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell and Norma Bell break into the local nursery, leaving notes referring to the murder of 4-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

The police dismissed the incident as a prank.

(x)43 years ago

Wednesday 31st of May 1972

In a taped speech 38-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof calls up students to take up arms and fight the system in Goethe Universität Hörsaal VI, Mertonstraße 17, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

(x)41 years ago

Friday 31st of May 1974

Bomb attack by the Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the office of the California Attorney General in Sacramento, California, United States.

The attack was in response to the killing of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.